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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has met with senior government and law enforcement officials in Mauritania – the 180th member country he has visited – to reinforce the cooperation between Mauritania and INTERPOL, especially in combating terrorism and transnational organized crime.Meetings with Interior Minister, Mohamed...

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius – Reviewing key evidence and information sharing was the focus of a two-day (20 and 21 March) meeting under the umbrella of INTERPOL’s Maritime Security unit as part of it Evidence Exploitation Initiative (EVEXI) project targeting maritime piracy in East Africa.Investigators from all five EVEXI II countries and representatives from t...

KENYA/ZIMBABWE - An operation across Eastern and Southern Africa targeting a range of cross-border crimes has resulted in the rescue of human trafficking victims, the seizure of drugs, guns and stolen vehicles and the recovery of smuggled goods including ivory and diamonds.Codenamed Usalama – which means ‘safety’ – the operation was led by the Eastern Afr...

A Mauritanian man charged in connection with the murder of four French tourists in December 2007 and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice following his subsequent escape from custody, has today been arrested by police in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.Sidi Ould Sidna was apprehended during an overnight operation in which Khadim Ould Semane, the alleged...

LYON, France -- INTERPOL has issued a Red Notice - an international wanted persons notice - for Maarouve Mohamed Habib, who is sought by Mauritanian police authorities investigating the murder of four French tourists on 24 December, 2007.Habib is alleged to be one of three people implicated in the roadside shooting of the French tourists in Aleg, south of...

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued an international wanted persons notice for Sidi Mohamed Ould Haidalla, who is sought by Mauritania for drug trafficking following the country’s largest-ever cocaine seizure.Haidalla is thought to have been the intended recipient of a 629-kilogram shipment of cocaine seized in the country last month, the latest in a serie...